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Venla Hakala; Laura Mielityinen; Kirsi Peltonen; Taina Laajasalo; Noora Ellonen – Youth & Society, 2025
Armed conflicts violate young people's rights by exposing them to violence and trauma, disrupting their sense of safety. This study examines how Russia's war against Ukraine affects Ukrainian adolescents' lives. The study utilizes data from Let's Chat, a free, low-threshold support service for Ukrainian-speaking children and youths. We analyzed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Trauma, Violence
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Keddie, Amanda; Hewson-Munro, Shelley; Halafoff, Anna; Delaney, Maria; Flood, Michael – Gender and Education, 2023
The contemporary #MeToo moment has led to renewed concern about issues of masculinity and gender justice. This moment provides a strong warrant for critically analyzing different programmes for boys and men in relation to their capacity for gender transformation. This paper presents three such programmes located in Victoria (Australia) as case…
Descriptors: Masculinity, Males, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues
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Taylor, Laura K.; Merrilees, Christine E.; Baird, Rachel; Goeke-Morey, Marcie C.; Shirlow, Peter; Cummings, E. Mark – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Counterbalancing the narrative of youth as either helpless victims or ruthless perpetrators, a new generation of research in conflict settings focuses on their peacebuilding potential, including constructs such as prosocial behaviors and civic engagement. Previous research on the impact of political violence on prosocial behaviors in mixed,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict, Political Issues, Adolescents
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Gatbonton, Ryan Ray G. – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2021
Adolescent pregnancy is a significant societal issue that results in lost opportunities for teenage girls in both developed and developing countries. This phenomenological research study explored the lived experience of adolescent mothers during their college years. Eight participants were asked, via unstructured interview, to share their…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Pregnancy, Early Parenthood, Mothers
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Gaias, Larissa M.; Lindstrom Johnson, Sarah; White, Rebecca M. B.; Pettigrew, Jonathan; Dumka, Larry – Grantee Submission, 2019
In Colombia, many adolescents have experienced violence related to the decades-long armed conflict in the country and have witnessed or been directly victimized by violence in their communities, often related to gang activity or drug trafficking. Exposure to violence, both political and community violence, has detrimental implications for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Violence, Adolescents
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da Silvia, Antonio Marcio – Hispania, 2016
This current study explores three contemporary Brazilian films' depiction of commercial sexual exploitation of young girls and teenagers. It points out how the young female characters cope with the abuses they suffer and proposes that these filmic representations of the characters' experiences expose a significant social problem of contemporary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Films, Sexual Abuse, Gender Bias
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Mala, V. – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2018
Adolescence is the period between childhood and adulthood and the most important stage of a human being. Adolescence is a period of stress and storm. Students cannot adjust with their new-fangled role in life. They can have Emotional, Mental, Behavioural, and Adjustment problems known as "disorders". Behavioural patterns that appear in…
Descriptors: Prevention, Physical Activities, Behavior Patterns, Sexuality
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Preiss, David Daniel; Calcagni, Elisa; Grau, Valeska – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
The article reviews recent classroom research developed in South America related to child and adolescent development. We review work about three themes: ethnicity, school climate and violence, and the learning process. The few studies found on ethnicity and classroom experiences told a story of invisibility, if not exclusion and discrimination.…
Descriptors: Violence, Educational Environment, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Lee, Eunju J.; Bukowski, William M. – Journal of Adolescence, 2012
Latent growth curve modeling was used to study the co-development of internalizing and externalizing problems in a sample of 2844 Korean fourth graders followed over four years. The project integrated two major theoretical viewpoints positing developmental mechanism: directional model and common vulnerability model. Findings suggest that (a) boys…
Descriptors: Females, Early Adolescents, Risk, Adolescents
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Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Maiano, Christophe; Nagengast, Benjamin; Marsh, Herbert W.; Morizot, Julien; Janosz, Michel – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Substantively, this study investigates potential heterogeneity in the developmental trajectories of anxiety in adolescence. Methodologically, this study demonstrates the usefulness of general growth mixture analysis (GGMA) in addressing these issues and illustrates the impact of untested invariance assumptions on substantive interpretations. This…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Development, Anxiety, Statistical Analysis
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Dei, George Sefa – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The historic and contemporary global concern over youth violence and indiscipline/subordination in schools has educators, school administrators and policy makers working hard to ensure that schools are welcoming and safe spaces for learners. Social harmony can only be achieved by understanding and addressing the causes of youth violence and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Problems, Youth Opportunities, Violence
UNICEF, 2012
Adolescence is a formative period during which children grow into their rightful place as full citizens and agents of change in their own lives and the lives of their societies. This publication provides an overview of the situation of adolescents, including of their vulnerabilities in critical areas. It makes a compelling case for increased…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Trend Analysis, Population Trends, Marriage
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Steca, Patrizia; Bassi, Marta; Caprara, Gian Vittorio; Fave, Antonella Delle – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
Research has shown that parents' perceived parental self-efficacy (PSE) plays a pivotal role in promoting their children's successful adjustment. In this study, we further explored this issue by comparing psychosocial adaptation in children of parents with high and low PSE during adolescence. One hundred and thirty Italian teenagers (55 males and…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Adolescents, Adjustment (to Environment), Parent Child Relationship
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Bayer, Angela M.; Gilman, Robert H.; Tsui, Amy O.; Hindin, Michelle J. – Journal of Adolescence, 2010
This study explores the lives of Peruvian adolescents in a low-income human settlement outside of Lima. Twenty 12-17 year olds were asked to narrate their own life stories using the life history narrative research method. Holistic content analysis was coupled with a grounded-theory approach to explore these data. Intergenerational responsibility,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis
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Seginer, Rachel – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
Drawing on the importance of future orientation for adolescent development this analysis presents a model describing how future orientation is affected by high challenge (or resilience) in the face of political violence. The analysis consists of three parts. The first two present future orientation conceptualization and the psychological processes…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Futures (of Society), Models
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